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Corcoran Family
Corcoran is an Irish surname, the original Irish language form being meaning 'descendant of Corcrán'. The name itself is derived from meaning 'purple'. History The name Corcoran is an anglicisation of the names of two Gaelic clans. The first was the Ó Corcráin in Ulster. The second was the MacCorcráin clan from Leinster, which was a sept of Ó Corcráin. Related variations of the name Corcoran historically include ''MacCorcoran'', ''O'Corcoran'', and ''Corcorran''. The Corcorans were predominantly from Fermanagh and included a number of figures of historical importance such as the Bishop of Clogher in 1370 and Edmund O'Corcoran, "the hero of Limerick" (from the siege of 1691). Many Corcorans become members of the clergy between the tenth and fifteenth centuries, they became based around the vicinity of Lough Erne, County Fermanagh in Ulster. One member of the family, John Corcoran was appointed Bishop of Clogher in 1373. The O'Corcrain territory was invaded by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anglicisation
Anglicisation is the process by which a place or person becomes influenced by English culture or British culture, or a process of cultural and/or linguistic change in which something non-English becomes English. It can also refer to the influence of English culture and business on other countries outside England or the United Kingdom, including their media, cuisine, popular culture, technology, business practices, laws, or political systems. Linguistic anglicisation is the practice of modifying foreign words, names, and phrases to make them easier to spell, pronounce or understand in English. The term commonly refers to the respelling of foreign words, often to a more drastic degree than that implied in, for example, romanisation. One instance is the word "dandelion", modified from the French ''dent-de-lion'' ("lion's tooth", a reference to the plant's sharply indented leaves). The term can also refer to phonological adaptation without spelling change: ''spaghetti'', for example ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annette Corcoran
Annette Corcoran (born 1930) is an American artist who was born in Inglewood, California. She earned a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1952, and continued post-graduate studies at California State University, Long Beach, California Polytechnic State University, Saddleback College, and the College of Marin. She worked as a graphic artist for 15 years before turning to ceramics. She then spent 25 years making ceramic teapots. Although originally functional, they evolved into non-functional works of art. ''Anhinga'', in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art, is typical of her teapots, which usually incorporate birds into the design. It is made of hand-built porcelain, employing both underglazes and overglazes. The Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse, New York), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile vicinity o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Corcoran
Fred J. Corcoran (April 4, 1905 – June 23, 1977) was a golf tournament director, publicist, agent and business manager. Known around the world as "Mr. Golf," he was one of the first non-players to be inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1975. He acted as tournament manager of the PGA in the 1930s, promotion manager in the 1940s; the founder of the LPGA, the Golf Writers Association of America, the Metropolitan Golf Writers Association; tournament director of the Thunderbird and Westchester Classic; and the director of the International Golf Association. In addition to golf, his diverse career also included the world of baseball, boxing, hockey, football as he at one time managed the business affairs of Sam Snead, Ted Williams, Babe Zaharias, Stan Musial, Tony Lema, Ken Venturi, Seve Ballesteros, Tom Weiskopf and Pete Gogolak. Corcoran is honored annually with the Corcoran Cup, a golf tournament featuring the nation's top blind golfers, to raise funds for Guiding Eyes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Corcoran
Frank Corcoran ( ; born 1 May 1944) is an Irish composer. His output includes chamber, symphonic, choral and electro-acoustic music, through which he often explores Irish mythology and history. Life ''"I came late to art music; childhood soundscapes live on. The best work with imagination/intellect must be exorcistic-laudatory-excavatory. I am a passionate believer in "Irish" dream-landscape, two languages, polyphony of history, not ideology or programme. No Irish composer has yet dealt adequately with our past. The way forward – newest forms and technique (for me especially macro-counterpoint) – is the way back to deepest human experience."'' Born in Borrisokane, County Tipperary, Corcoran studied at Dublin, Maynooth (1961–4), Rome (1967–9) and Berlin (1969–71), where he was a pupil of Boris Blacher. He was a music inspector for the Irish government Department of Education from 1971 to 1979, after which he took up a composer fellowship from the Berlin Künstlerprogramm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fláithrà Ó Corcrán
Fláithrà Ó Corcrán, Irish singer and harpist, d. 1496. Ó Corcrán bore a surname held by at least two unrelated clans; one was a Brehon family from County Fermanagh, a second was situated in Munster. It is uncertain to which, if either, family Fláithrà belonged. The Annals of the Four Masters The ''Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland'' ( ga, Annála RÃoghachta Éireann) or the ''Annals of the Four Masters'' (''Annála na gCeithre MáistrÃ'') are chronicles of Middle Ages, medieval Irish history. The entries span from the Flood myt ... record his death, ''sub anno'' 1496: * ''Florence O'Corcoran, player on the harp and other stringed instruments, and a distinguished vocalist died.'' See also * Brian Ó Corcrán * Felimidh Ó Corcrán * Cahalan Ó Corcrán References * http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100005D/ * http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/surname/index.cfm?fuseaction=Go.&UserID= {{DEFAULTSORT:OCorcran, Flaithri Irish male singers Irish harpists 15 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felimidh Ó Corcrán
Felimidh Ó Corcrán (d. 1522) was an Irish Doctor of Canon Law. Ó Corcrán was a member of a Brehon family from County Fermanagh. The Annals of the Four Masters record his death, ''sub anno'' 1522: * ''Master Felim O'Corcran, a learned doctor of the canon law, died.'' See also * Brian Ó Corcrán * Fláithrà Ó Corcrán Fláithrà Ó Corcrán, Irish singer and harpist, d. 1496. Ó Corcrán bore a surname held by at least two unrelated clans; one was a Brehon family from County Fermanagh, a second was situated in Munster. It is uncertain to which, if either, fa ... * Cahalan Ó Corcrán References * http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100005D/ * http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/surname/index.cfm?fuseaction=Go.&UserID= {{DEFAULTSORT:O Corcran, Felimidh Canon law jurists 16th-century Irish people People from County Fermanagh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farrel Corcoran
Professor Farrel Corcoran is an author and retired academic of Dublin City University. He has served as Head of Communication and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the university. From 1995 to 2000 he was chairman of RTÉ, the Republic of Ireland's public service broadcaster. Farrel Corcoran was born in Borrisokane, he went to secondary school in St Finian's College, Mullingar, before entered Maynooth College as a clerical student, following his Humanities studies he left the seminary and became a teacher, in Ireland and abroad. He also worked at RTE. Corcoran went to the US to do postgraduate studies, earning a PhD from University of Oregon The University of Oregon (UO, U of O or Oregon) is a public research university in Eugene, Oregon. Founded in 1876, the institution is well known for its strong ties to the sports apparel and marketing firm Nike, Inc, and its co-founder, billion .... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Éamonn Corcoran
Éamonn Corcoran (born 17 October 1977 in Templemore, County Tipperary) is an Irish sportsperson. He plays hurling with his local club J.K. Bracken's GAC. He was a member of the Tipperary GAA senior inter-county team from 1999 until 2008. Early life Éamonn Corcoran was born in Templemore, County Tipperary in 1977 . From an early age he showed great skill at the game of hurling. Corcoran began his hurling career with Scoil Colmchille Primary School where he won county honours. From here Corcoran later went to Our Lady's Secondary School, Templemore where his hurling skills were further developed. Here he won an All-Ireland Colleges' B Championship medal. In 1997 Corcoran began studying at the Waterford Institute of Technology. Here he had more hurling success, winning an All-Ireland Freshers medal together with an All-Ireland Senior League medal. In 1999 and 2000 he won back-to-back Fitzgibbon Cup and All-Ireland Senior League medals with the college. Corcoran was named the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donna Corcoran
Donna Corcoran (born September 29, 1942) is an American former child actress who appeared in nine Hollywood films from 1951 through 1955. She notably appeared in two aquatic musicals that featured Esther Williams (playing swimmer Annette Kellerman as a child in one of them), and as a vulnerable girl being victimized by an emotionally disturbed babysitter (played by Marilyn Monroe) in ''Don't Bother to Knock''. After making her last film, she made a token comeback as a young adult in an episode of the long-running sitcom ''My Three Sons'' (starring Fred MacMurray) in the early 1960s. Corcoran was born in Quincy, Massachusetts to William Henry Corcoran, Sr. and Kathleen H. McKenney. Several of her siblings were child stars, including younger sister Noreen Corcoran Noreen Margaret Corcoran (October 20, 1943 – January 15, 2016) was an American film and television actress. She is best known for playing Kelly Gregg in the American sitcom television series '' Bachelor Father''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Des Corcoran
James Desmond Corcoran AO (8 November 1928 – 3 January 2004) was an Australian politician, representing the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party. He was the 37th Premier of South Australia, serving between 15 February 1979 and 18 September 1979. He also served as the 1st Deputy Premier of South Australia in 1968 and again from 1970 to 1979. Early life Born in Millicent, South Australia, Corcoran joined the Labor Party in 1941. He enlisted in the Australian Army and fought in the Korean War (where he was mentioned in dispatches), as well as serving in Japan, Malaya and New Guinea. Politics Corcoran left the Army in 1961 and in 1962 was elected to the South Australian House of Assembly, succeeding his father, Jim Corcoran, as the member for Millicent. Corcoran quickly impressed many within the Labor Party with his vigorous approach and his talent for administration. When the ALP won government in South Australia in 1965 for the first time in 32 years, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny Corcoran (other) (born 1953), sports administrator in Australian rules football and athletics in Australia
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Danny Corcoran may refer to: * Danny Corcoran (ranger) (1916–1938), Newfoundland ranger who died on a solo expedition across the Great Northern Peninsula * Danny Corcoran (sports administrator) Thomas Daniel "Danny" Corcoran is an Australian sports administrator, having worked for AFL clubs Essendon (1990–1995, 2010–2013) and Melbourne (1998–2003), and for Athletics Australia (2004–2010). In 2010 he became the inaugural general ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cahalan Ó Corcrán
Cahalan is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Adrienne Cahalan (born 1964), Australian sailor * Cissie Cahalan (1876–1948), Irish suffragette * Robert Cahalan (born 1946), American atmospheric scientist * Sinéad Cahalan, Irish camogie player * Susannah Cahalan Susannah Cahalan (born January 30, 1985) is an American journalist and author, known for writing the memoir '' Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness'', about her hospitalization with a rare auto-immune disease, anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis. She ... (born 1985), American journalist and author See also * Cahalane, surname {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |